Paul Robinson reviews ‘Russia without Putin’ by Tony Wood, an editor of the New Left Review.
Christopher Caldwell: Solzhenitsyn in Exile
Book review: Between Two Millstones, Book 1: Sketches of Exile, 1974–1978, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Jerrod Laber: The Dangers of Romanticizing Regime Change
Lindsay A. O’Rourke’s book looks at the destructive outcome of regime change gone wrong.
Robert W. Merry: NATO is a Danger, Not a Guarantor of Peace
Status quo supporters like the New York Times poke fun at Trump for questioning the alliance. But who’s the fool?
Gordon Bardos: Who’s Losing Serbia?
Vladimir Putin’s visit to Belgrade on January 17 poses an interesting question—are China and Russia making inroads into Serbia due to Washington’s neglect?
VIDEO: Aaron Mate on the BuzzFeed Debacle
The Nation’s Aaron Mate talks with podcast host Jimmy Dore on the latest piece of Russiagate “fake news” which comes courtesy of BuzzFeed.
Glenn Greenwald: Beyond BuzzFeed: The 10 Worst, Most Embarrassing Media Failures on the Trump/Russia Story
The following are the top ten worst media failures in two-plus-years of Tump/Russia reporting. They are listed in reverse order, as measured by the magnitude of the embarrassment, the hysteria they generated on social media and cable news…
Martin Luther King, Jr: The Last Steep Ascent
Our nation is now so rich, so productive, that the continuation of persistent poverty is incendiary because the poor cannot rationalize their deprivation. We have yet to confront and solve the international problems created by our wealth in a world still largely hungry and miserable.
Prof. Theodore Postal: Is Russia Solely to Blame for Violations of the INF Treaty?
The New York Times says so, but this MIT professor emeritus says there’s more to the story.
Paul Robinson: Worst Secret Agent Ever
For the past couple of years, Donald Trump’s enemies have been waiting with bated breath for the moment when Special Counsel Robert Mueller issues what they are confident will be a damning report revealing the multiple terrible sins committed by Trump in his role as a Kremlin agent…
David Foglesong: Here’s How Democratic Presidential Contenders Should (Not) Talk About Russia
Candidates gearing up for 2020 may be blazing new trails on domestic issues, but when it comes to engagement with Russia, they haven’t moved beyond the counterproductive status quo.
Rich Lowry: When Did It Become the FBI’s Job to Act as a Check and Balance to the President?
“Counterintelligence investigators…had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security.
VIDEO: Tucker Carlson: Is Questioning NATO Treason?
This is a huge story. Or it would have been huge in 1983 when the Soviet Union still existed, and it was still clear what the point of NATO was…
AV Club: In 1982, a 10-year-old American wrote to the head of the U.S.S.R….
In 1982, a 10-year-old girl wrote a letter to Yuri Andropov, the general secretary of the Soviet Union. He wrote back. Andropov invited Samantha Smith to the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War, and she became a media darling as well as a goodwill ambassador.
PODCAST: Stephen F. Cohen: Anti-Trump Frenzy Threatens to End Superpower Diplomacy
The New Year has brought a torrent of ever more frenzied allegations that President Donald Trump has long had a conspiratorial relationship—why mince words and call it “collusion”?—with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
WSJ Editorial: How About Some Russia Facts?
Another Trump-Russia “scoop,” another bout of feverish media speculation.
Center for National Interest: America’s Nightmare: The Sino-Russian Entente
The most dangerous threat to America “would be a grand coalition of China and Russia, united not by ideology, but by complementary grievance.”
PODCAST: Stephen F. Cohen: New Cold War Crazier Than the Old One
“The peril of this new Cold War is especially great,” said Russia expert Stephen Cohen, “because even when Trump does something sensible with Russia on behalf of our national security, it’s called treason. I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Cohen, whose newest book is titled, War with Russia?: From Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate.
VIDEO: Tucker Carlson: US Counter-Intel targeted Trump for policy differences on Russia
Fallout from New York Times report that FBI opened inquiry into whether Trump was secretly working for Russia…
Ted Galen Carpenter: Russia Sure Behaves Strangely for a Country Bent on Conquest
Its conduct has been abrasive and aggressive, but there’s no evidence that Moscow harbors expansionist ambitions.